[Bradley_A_Pliam]

I don't doubt that the "tired light" theory has been slain. I can update my orientation from your informed response without hesitation. However, I don't think I'm truly talking about the "tired light" theory in a way that plugs into your understanding of it. Although I mention debris in the article, and then kind of took it off the table, what I still have left to posit is that light propagation looses energy over billions of light years, not some short distances that can be tested in a lab or verified via other corroborating observations that relate to shorter distances or parallax geometry. I've completely placed my theory and conjecture out of reach of the lab! Or have I? If I have it might not be worth much in the community of experts, but it still means something to me because I feel like, and nobody seems to be responding to this in any detail, cosmic speed limits are being broken all over the place, as my article states.

[pfdietz]

Yes, you are talking about a tired light theory. You are talking about a theory that robs energy from photons (never mind there's no known physical way to do this that doesn't scatter them, which isn't seen) but does not also stretch out the time of other physical processes, and stretch out the space containing the photons.

What you are proposing is ruled out by the generic argument against all such tired light theories.

I'm getting very strong crank vibes from you now.